Pinyomi: Dictionary lookup via orthographic associations
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Bilingual dictionaries provide meaning associations between the words of two languages, those of an ideal bilingual speaker. Learners can use these associations to look up foreign equivalents of known native words, but are forced to use script-based lookup methods when faced with unknown foreign words. This paper presents the Pinyomi Chinese-Japanese dictionary interface, which uses a novel method of using associations with the learner’s native script to look up foreign language words.
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